The Mother's Act

Back in June of 2006 a Senator from New Jersey introduced a bill entitled The Mother's Act. This bill aims to eradicate the devastating effects of postpartum depression for women and their families.

The intentions of dealing with and attempting to rid our society of this very difficult problem are very honorable in my opinion, but there are many problems with how the bill will allow this challenge to be handled.

The nuts and bolts of this bill will allow physicians and other health care providers to diagnose pregnancy and post-pregnancy issues as a new mental disease and therefore provide mind-altering medications for those mothers.

When one looks closely at the important sections of the legislation, it is clear that this costly and sweeping mental health legislation not only fails the mothers of America, it’s intended to inflate the balance sheets of Big Pharma. If you would like to read the full article describing some of the points for contention follow this link.

Here is a brief section of an article written by Byron Richards, a very well respected wellness practitioner.

"The Mothers Act proposes sweeping and dramatic changes in the delivery of pregnancy care by all health professionals. It demands that health professionals indoctrinate pregnant women into mental health treatment options for mild depression-like symptoms experienced during or following pregnancy, including moderate symptoms they call “baby blues” which they say affects 80% of pregnant women. In other words, this is a massive federate health mandate to get the majority of pregnant and nursing mothers on psych drugs – a new target market for Big Pharma. "

I would highly recommend that you review a few of these following articles for information regarding this issue.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Natural News.com
Uniteforlife.org

There are many other articles available to read, just perform a google search and see for yourself.

Understanding this problem of postpartum depression is very valuable, but in my opinion, it would be more valuable to understand what these mothers are missing from there nutritional, exercise, mental and chiropractic needs.

When you supply the body with what it requires, health happens!